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D-Day to Ve Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe

D-Day to Ve Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe

Rippon, Anton
Rippon, Nicola

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General European HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $24.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 17, 2026

ISBN10: 1399056220
ISBN13: 9781399056229
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 184
Language: English
Britain witnesses the final months of war in Europe through contemporary voices, revealing national transformation and hopeful emancipation.

On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come news of the battle that would forever alter the course of their lives, and the lives of their children and their grandchildren.

The following day's morning newspapers and early radio news bulletins were full of the fall of Rome to the Allies, which had been announced the day before. But then, at 9.33 am on that Tuesday, came the brief announcement: Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, had begun landing Allied armies on the coast of France.' D-Day had finally dawned.

D-Day to VE Day tells the story of the last year of the Second World War in Europe, from the Normandy landings and on through the hard slog to that long-awaited day - 8th May 1945 - when Britain broke out the bunting, rolled out the barrel, and celebrated victory over Hitler. The air-raid sirens were silenced, the lights could be switched on again, and the boys would be coming home.

In many homes, festivities were muted because the war in the Far East was still to be won, but for a few short hours at least, the nation could afford to let its hair down and dance in the streets.

Using contemporary accounts - interviews, newspaper reports and official documents - of those final months, D-Day to VE Day looks at life in Britain during those vital months, at the events that brought an end to war in Europe, and at the redrawing of national borders that would shape a new world order.

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